SHIELD TV pilot from the Whedon clan

And there was much rejoicing.

The Walking Dead S2 felt pretty much like a long-form Romero zombie apocalypse, as ever, but didn't feel much like a comic in particular, up until the sudden arrival of a new character in the final episode who in terms of striking design and apparent impracticality is like "HELLO I AM FROM A COMIC" in a way that seems to jar with the dirt-under-the ( Read more... )

And adaptation between different media, and other stuff

So it turns out Peter Jackson didn't make the first live-action adaptation of Lord Of The Rings. Just the first in English. And very possibly the first that was actually legal.

Hobitit - Finnish for "Hobbits"

Featuring Ninja Boromir.

By the power of getting S1 in a charity shop and borrowing S2 from Chris, I am now more than halfway through all available Fringe.

It's pretty much "What if The X Files answered a decent number of the questions it raised?" - The Series ( Read more... )

So, the end of True Blood S3.

The Hell was that?

Clearly American Horror Story had something to do with this...

Quinn from glee as Milli from TWH

Okay, it's more New Wave than Riot Grrrl, but still...

New (as of last year) series of Human Target just reached our TVs. Bad new theme. Decent fights, but nothing yet on the level of the fistight in the back of a moving car. Rather postmodern of them to call Indira Varma's character Pucci. Pronounced Poochy.

Presumably it being cancelled discouraged DC bringing back the comics. Bummer.

The Fades - a new BBC genre series (which along with Doctor Who and the end of Torchwood: Miracle Day makes three this week) about a teenage boy with the ability to see ghosts, souls who fail to ascend for no clear reason, and as a result tend to go psycho. And there's a group hunting them. Including a healer. And there's a Nosferatu-looking ghost ( Read more... )

The weird outlier of the Festivals here is the Television Festival, which runs for a single weekend and can only be attended if you spend a couple hundred quid on an all-in ticket. But this year, in a bit of a spinoff, the Filmhouse has been showing some selected previews of relevant shows.

Let's Kill Hitler! sold out in minutes, despite being a ( Read more... )